Nonsensical housing policy from Reform | Brief letters

Foreign-born citizens | A heartwarming visitor | United States of Trump | What’s in a name? | Against the odds Our first child was born in Singapore, 30 years ago, through no fault of their own. As UK citizens, we briefly lived there, came back to the UK, had two more children and have lived here ever since. Yet Reform UK would make it harder for our first child to get social housing than their siblings, who were born here (Reform says it would put foreign-born UK citizens lower on social housing list, 23 August). How does that make sense?Ian BourneLondon Re birds’ association with death (Letters, 26 August), in the eight years since the death of my wife, Victoria, a robin has been popping in most days to say hello and pick up stray crumbs from the dog’s biscuits. It can’t be the same robin over all that time as they have such a short lifespan. Is it a message of love from Victoria? No. Is it welcome and heartwarming? Yes. Denis Nightingale Stithians, Cornwall Donald Trump must surely be in need of a new name for America itself once he notices that it is named after a European (Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, 27 August). Perhaps your readers coul

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